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KEPORT  OF  8PP]CIAL  COMMITTHE  NO.  8. 

The  Special  Committee  charged  with  considering  and  reporting  the 
means  by  which  the  State  can  afford  most  ready  and  efficient  aid  to 
the  Coniederate  authorities,  in  expelling  the  invaders  from  our  borders, 
have  endeavored  to  perform  the  duty  assigned  to  them,  and  bog  leave 
to  report  as  follows : 

To  furnish  troops  is  the  first  requisite  for  expelling  the  enemy.  The 
Acts  passed  by  the  Provisional  Congress,  and  by  the  General  Assem- 
bly of  this  State,  provide  largely  for  raising  troops.  The  number  of 
men  already  placed  in  the  field  by  the  State,  or  now  forming  into 
Regiments,  is  very  large,  being,  as  appears  by  the  late  Message  of  the 
Grovernor  to  the  Convention,  upwards  of  thirty-two  thousand — a  num- 
ber o(iual  to  about  two-thirds  of  the  whole  white  male  population 
between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five.  Your  Committee  do  not 
see  that  any  legislation  on  the  subject  by  the  Convention  is  necessary- 
but  they  think  it  is  to  be  recommended,  that  in  any  further  levies  of 
troops,  the  term  of  service  shall  be  for  the  war,  or  for  three  years, 
unless  sooner  discharged. 

As  there  is  great  need  of  arms,  and  as  they  cannot  be  furnished  in 
sufficient  number  by  the  Confederate  Government,  your  Committee 
recommend  that  the  Governor  be  authorized  to  raise  and  expend  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the  purchase  of  arms  and  munitions  of 
war  from  whatever  (quarter  may  be  practicable,  and  that  the  General 
Assembly  be  instructed  to  provide  the  means  for  meeting  this  expense. 

Your  Committee  think  that  the  subsistence  of  the  troops  on  our 
seacoast  would  be  much  focilitated,  and  with  advantage  to  the  country, 
by  substituting,  in  part  at  least,  rice  and  ground  corn  in  place  of  flour 
for  the  rations;  and  recommend  that  the  Governor  be  requested  to 


make  such  arrangement,  if  practicable,  wi^h  the  Confederate  au- 
tliorities. 

There  is  a  great  deficiency  in  the  means  of  transportation  for  the 
army  defending  our  coast.  Your  Committee  recommend  that  the  Gov- 
ernor be  requested  to  concert  measures  with  the  Confederate  authori- 
ties, for  obtaining  a  full  supply  of  wagons,  ambulances,  horses  and 
mules. 

Your  Committee  would  also  recommend,  that  the  Governor  be  re- 
quested to  adopt  all  proper  measures  for  aiding  the  operations  of  the 
army,  by  contributions  of  labor,  materials  and  supplies. 

To  give  effect  to  the  reconimondation  for  the  purchase  of  arms,  your 
Committee  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following  resolution : 

Rrsnlccd,  hji  the  People  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  in  Conven- 
tion nssrjnbird,  That  the  Governor  be  authorized  to  borrow  the  sum  of 
three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  to  expend  the  same  lor  the  pur- 
chase of  arms  and  munitions  of  war  from  whatever  quarter  may  be 
practicable;  and  that  the  General  Assembly  be  instructed  to  provide 
the  means  for  meeting  this  expense. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

MAXCY  GREGG, 

Chainnau  of  Committee. 


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